Scramble without returning

@Cmdr: @thatonekid: you really cant take haw j1 can you?? i mean, theres 2 inf and 2 figs there, if they only have 1 trns full of people, then the odds are likely not in their favor. Yes you can, out of the box Japan may bring:  5 ground units (4 from Japan, 1 from Carolines) and 3 shore bombardments since the only “enemy” ship is a transport. American only has: 2 Infantry, Fighter, Tactical Bomber, Strategic Bomber to defend with. It’s only like 33% odds, but I’ve seen some people go for Sea Lion or an attack on a massive army with less odds of success. thats true, but i dont play with OOB rules.

You are right on all counts MeinHerr.

Regarding SZ 110, I got hosed one time on a UK scramble. Usually as Germany, I send 3 fighters, 3 Stukas, 1 bombers and sometimes 1 sub to SZ 110. Our UK player had gotten in the habit of not scrambling in order to save the RAF for future action. Well, this one game I made the mistake of just assuming UK would not scramble. I sent 2 fighters, 2 Stukas and 1 bomber to SZ 110. The other fighter and Stuka I sent to kill the French fleet in SZ 93. Well, UK taught me a lesson. They scrambled and wiped out my planes. I didn’t even kill all the ships in the channel. Never made that mistake again.

@-Savage-: I apologize if this has been asked or if it�s clearly in the rules. I�ve read the rules and just want some clarity� Scenario:  During the Combat Move, attacker sets up an amphibious assault into a hostile sea zone. Attacker brings an aircraft carrier to take supporting hits for the sea battle. Both planes from the aircraft carrier had already took off and one is assigned to the sea battle, the other plane is assigned to the land battle to support the landing. Now the defender elects to scramble some fighters to help defend against the amphibious assault. Questions: Is the plane from the aircraft carrier that is assigned to the land battle have any part of the scramble combat at all? If the scramble was enough to tip the balance and the attacker retreated, then apparently there is no amphibious assault in the Conduct Combat phase. Since the plane from aircraft carrier assigned to the land battle was part of the overall amphibious assault, and there is no amphibious assault due to the successful scramble at end of Combat Movement phase, is the plane still committed to the combat on land as the lone attacker? Same scenario, but the attacking aircraft carrier has only one participating plane, and has a friendly guest plane as cargo. Is the guest plane still cargo in the event of a scramble? I would think yes since the scrambled planes are on defense, but just want clarification. Thank you. A visiting planes are always cargo during your combat move. In your scenarion there are 2 combats specified. 1 the naval battle  consisting of 1 plane + 1 carrier VS possible scrambes 2 the land battle  consisting of 1 plane and possible land forces VS his forces. If you lose combat 1 then combat 2 still occurs but the land forces that you intended to come by transport cannot join. So your plane will do 1 round of combat and then it can retreat. Same happens if you attack a land area with 2 land units comming over land and 2 land units comming by sea, just because part of the forces did not arive the combat will still occur.

@Duke: Most definitely! And I understand that now, I mean it should litterally be descriped as a faze between the declaring combat moves faze and the conduct combat faze Fully. Declaring intercept, scramble and kamikaze decisions should be their own phase to provide clarity in the rules. Not for any other reason. Actually resolving those things can still be in conduct combat.

I think he means an i-phone app.

New Guinea is after Greenland the largest island in the world. The fact that Japan can scramble is a big advantage, of course. But if it gets to that Japan is in serious trouble. Then you need to hold out until Germany captures Moscow and Italy captures India.

One round of combat must be fought before the attacker can retreat.  The transports would only be automatically destroyed if there were no retreat route for some reason.